She's in Dallas and I have 2 birthday cards for her here on the boat. I called to wish her a happy birthday, but I can't play happy birthday on her keyboard, so I couldn't get Daisy to join in. Daisy loves to howl along with that one song on the piano. Kathy's Mom is recovering from her surgery, but Kathy will stay to help out when she gets home. I'm in Pentwater, MI about 60 miles South of Frankfort where we were yesterday.
The Eastern shore of Lake Michigan is still all sand dunes, but they're smaller here than at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. These are 50 to 100 ft. dunes instead of 200 to 300 ft. dunes farther North. Notice the waves in this picture too. We cruised South with a 15 knot North wind on our tail all day. The morning was all long 3 to 4 foot swells and with the stabilizers on and planing the boat we were literally surfing sometimes! I usually plane at about 15 knots, but in these long swells going our direction, we'd go 12.5 knots "climbing up the backside" of the wave and then 17 knots down the front side. The fast ride on the front of the wave lasted about twice as long as the climb up the back. In the afternoon, after we rounded Big Sable Point, we were somewhat in the lee of the point and came in in 1 to 2 ft. swells.
This is Big Sable Point Light. It's on a sandy point of land sticking out into the lake all by itself, which makes it rather picturesque. Note the small waves here too, this is on South side of Big Sable Point. Daisy and I just cruised on the flybridge in complete comfort with temps in the high 70s and a nice 5 knot breeze (because we were doing 10 knots downwind in a 15 knot wind). Very nice.
Serious air horns!
The boat next to us in the marina is a 65 ft. Huxley, from the 1950s. Huxley was a company that built PT boats during WWII, and they continued with the hull as a cruiser in the 1950s. It's 65 ft long and rather narrow.
There is a cluster of 5 large airhorns mounted in front of the bridge. As he was coming in, the dock hands all made the "blow your horn" gesture and he did. WOW! Definitely louder than mine!
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